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HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4865 HINA Zagreb 15 January 2003CROATIA MARKS 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITIONZAGREB, Jan 15 (Hina) - Exactly eleven years ago -- on 15 January 1992, in the
midst of raging war conflicts, when almost one third of its territory was under occupation by the Yugoslav army and Serb paramilitary units, Croatia was internationally recognised by 12 European Union member-states. On the same day, the country was also recognised by Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Switzerland. Before thats date, which the first Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman, described as "the day to be entered in gold in the 14-century-long history of the Croat people", Croatia had been recognised, in the course of 1991, by Slovenia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia, which at the time were not independent states. The first internationally recognised state to recognise Croatia was Iceland, which did so on December 19, 1991. On